The Henry Williamson Society Journal, 1995-

 

The Society has published a Journal since its formation in 1980. Originally biannual, the Journal became an annual publication in 1995. From the spring of 1995 the Society has also published a more informal Newsletter.

 

Journal editors: Will Harris (1980–1984); Anne Williamson (1985–2008); Michael Coultas (2009– )

 

(Go to Tables of Contents for Journals nos. 1–30, 1980–1994, and Newletters nos. 1–16, 1995–2010)

 

 

Journal cover

 

With issue no. 31, September 1995 – the centenary of the year of Henry Williamson's birth – the Society's Journal changed its format from A5 to its current, more generous size, and the quality of its production was substantially improved.

 

Below is the Table of Contents for each issue since 1995. The authors and article titles are also added to our Research Pages, together with short abstracts, as journals and newsletters are published. Under development is a searchable, indexed database.

 

Back numbers are available of issues nos. 31–45, available through our Online Bookshop at £5.00 each.

 

Use the number links to jump down to the Journal contents you wish to view; or scroll down.

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS, 1995–2010



ISSUE No. 46, September 2010

Editorial

Introduction to Tarka the Otter, Robert Finch

Henry's Hayling Holidays, Robert Walker

A Devon Stream, Henry Williamson

On Foot in Devon, Anne Williamson

Seeing Stars – Henry Williamson's Astronomy, Michael Coultas

Malandine and Barley, Anne Williamson

'Barleybright' or 'The Torcross Venus': Ann Courtenay Edmonds, Anne Williamson

Decline and Fall, Part 1: The Crisis of the Chronicle, Michael Coultas

Stories from My Youth, Harry Williamson

Children's Hospice South West and Starborn, Ted Wood

'Found Poems', Michael Coultas

The Hawthornden Prize, Michael Coultas

Valhalla, Michael Coultas

Tarka the Music – World Premiere, Harry Williamson

Reviews

The 'Chichester Cousins', Anne Williamson

Henry Williamson's Handwriting, Elizabeth Shearer

Felixstowe Plaque

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ISSUE No. 45, September 2009

Editorial

The Gold Falcon: A Morality Play in Prose? Anne Williamson

Characters in The Gold Falcon and their Real-Life Counterparts, compiled by Anne Williamson

The Gold Falcon: Limited Edition Dedicated Copies, Anne Williamson

Thomas Washington Metcalfe, Anne Williamson

Henry's Visit to the New World 1930–1: Known Facts and Dates, Anne Williamson

Grove Street Blues: Places and People from Henry Williamson's First Trip to North America 1930–1, Walker Burns

Letters from Henry to Loetitia Williamson, North America 1930–1 Selection of extracts by Anne Williamson

Hamlet and Modern Life, Henry Williamson [Lecture given at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, 10 February 1931]

Dixie Days of 1934: Henry Williamson in the Deep South, Tony Jowett

Reflections on A Clear Water Stream, Mick Loates

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ISSUE No. 44, September 2008

Editorial

Teeth of the Lion, Anne Williamson

A Busy Year: 1911, Colfe's and HW [with] 'Some Feathered Friends', by HW

Carmen Colfanum and Colfe's Sports Song, Leland Duncan (words), Frederick Leeds (music)

Mr Creech, HW and Constance Bennett (Ko Kee) [with] 'Linnets', by HW

The Making of a Book (review of Winged Victory, 1975)

Colfe's School Staff

Map of Lewisham, 1745

Imaginary but True: Henry Williamson's Wakenham, pts II & III, Fred Shepherd

An Edwardian Boyhood (MA Dissertation): The View of the Child in A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight; Chapter 4: 'Education and Nature', Lesley Delaney

Mad Willie and Me, pt 2, Sue Cumming

A Literary Collaboration: The Wet Flanders Plain, Jeremy Archer

Salar the Salmon (an extract from Hunting and Fishing, Vol. XIV, No. 3, March 1937

Reviews

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ISSUE No. 43, September 2007

Editorial

Henry Williamson, F.O.O. and the Battle of Loos, Ian Walker

Sketch map of terrain of the Battle of Loos

'Tower Bridge': before and after the battle

The Spectre of Lone Tree, Anne Williamson

A Test of Detection: The Missing Days, April 1918, Dr Mike Maloney

A Felixstowe Friendship (compiled by Anne Williamson)

Dear Filly . . . Love, Harry, John Gregory

Two early (unpublished) Essays, Henry Williamson

The Great War in the Writings of Henry Williamson, John Gregory

'My Friend': Major Colin Traill (compiled by Anne Williamson)

Cousin Charlie: A Tribute (compiled by Anne Williamson)

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ISSUE No. 42, September 2006

Editorial

A Dual Heritage, Anne Williamson

Reflections on a Theme, Henry Williamson

Goethe, by Albert Schweitzer, a quotation from

Goethe's Faust: A review by Henry Williamson

Desert Island Discs, Henry Williamson's choice of: A transcript of the 1969 BBC radio programme

Squerryes Court, details

Henry's Desert Island Choice Revisited, Stuart Smith

Henry Williamson as Educational Thinker, Will Harris

Phillip Maddison and the Decca 'Trench' Gramophone, David Macfarlane

Wheeling Down to Easterbacon, Barry Kitts

Reviews

Letters

Obituaries

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ISSUE No. 41, September 2005

Editorial

HW's Collection of Richard Jefferies Books

Henry Williamson's Debt to Richard Jefferies, Richard Stewart

Further Thoughts on Richard Jefferies and Henry Williamson, Brian Fullagar

Poor Richard Jefferies, Henry Williamson

Richard Jefferies Centenary, Henry Williamson

Samuel Looker: letter and inscription to HW

Henry Williamson as President of the RJ Society

Richard Jefferies as a young man

HW at RJ's grave

Coate Water, January 1937

Richard Jefferies Society information

A Purple Thread (W.H. Hudson), Anne Williamson

West Country Writers: Cartoon 1954

'Supreme Nature Writer', Review: Tomalin, W.H. Hudson, Henry Williamson

Impressions of Nature, Richard Williamson

And still the story continued

The Henry Williamson Archive at Exeter University, Ian Mortimer

Golden Days, Walker Burns

Helena and Doris: Calf Love in Fiction and Real Life, Peter Lewis

Obituaries

Reviews

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ISSUE No. 40, September 2004

Editorial

Journalism: The Public Face of the Norfolk Farm, John Gregory

On the Trail of Bugg Cottages, Peter Lewis

Norfolk Farm Cottages: Extracts from HW's Diary

Norfolk Farm: archive photographs

The Amazing Wildlife Detail of Tunnicliffe's Norfolk Farm Map, Richard Williamson

Old Hall Farm (The Norfolk Farm), map of

Norfolk Farm Facts: Some Documentary Evidence

A Potted History of Stiffkey Old Hall

Journal of a Norfolk Farmer (pages from a pocket notebook), Henry Williamson

Wits Misery (4 pages of TS), Henry Williamson

The Immortal Corn: Envelope notes/synopsis, Henry Williamson

The Making of The Vanishing Hedgerows, David Cobham

A Norfolk Memory, Wendy Hennington

Stewkey Blues: A Local Issue

Review

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ISSUE No. 39, September 2003

Editorial

The Flax of Dream: A Review, S.P.B. Mais

Henry's Wakenham: Imaginary but True, Fred Shepherd

Pauper Spirits, Andy Brown

Old Colfeians Roll of Honour 1914–1918 (from HW's archive)

Photograph of HW, 1919, Folkestone

Save His Own Soul He Hath No Star, Anne Williamson

Flaxen Words: an early typescript fragment, Henry Williamson

A Comment on 'The Dream of Flax', Rev'd A. Rose

Keeping the Wolf from the Door, John Gregory

A Jaunt to Belgium, Tony Jowett

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ISSUE No. 38, September 2002
Editorial
Henry Williamson's own photographs of the Lynmouth disaster
Map showing area of The Gale of the World
Fledgling Thoughts (Part 1 of talk on ‘The London Trilogy'), Anne Williamson
A School-boys Diary 1913, Henry Williamson
Selection of photographs from 'early era'
Mature Words (Part 2 of talk on ‘The London Trilogy’), Anne Williamson
Thomas Turney and Family, Peter Lewis
Thomas Leaver at the Alhambra, 1903 (photograph)
A Critical Approach to A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight: Part IV, ‘The Second World War and its Aftermath’, Dr J. Wheatley Blench
An American’s Pathway to Henry Williamson, Walker Burns
Reviews

ISSUE No. 37, September 2001

Editorial

Chasing the Cheriton, Tony Evans

A Critical Approach to A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight: Part III, The Inter-war Years, Dr J. Wheatley Blench

A Portrait of Richard Maddison, Parts 6, 7 and 8, Peter Lewis

The Bells of Georgeham, Brian Harris

Confessions of an English Williamson Addict, Mike Ruddock

Voices of the Visions of the Night, Mary Leopoldina Williamson

Responses to The Star-born

A Chronicle of Ancient Starlight?, Sue Cumming

Like Peeling an Onion, Ben Serjeant

Parallels with Steiner, Chris Clarke

Life was of the same moment of Truth, Peter Short

HW inscriptions from books by him belonging to the Radford family

A Haunted Place (from The Sun and the Serpent), Hamish Miller

Reviews

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ISSUE No. 36, September 2000

Editorial

The Light of Khristos, Brian Sanders
The Radfords of Ingo Brake, Lydford, Tony Evans
Two Postcards of Lydford Gorge (to HW from Joyce (Jo) Radford)
Sketch Map of Lydford and the Gorge, Anne Williamson
‘A Daffodyll in the grasses of Mankind’, Anne Williamson
Comment on previous articles on The Star-born, Anne Williamson
Notes for Phantasy (MS of the original concept), Henry Williamson
Three pages from the full MS of The Star-born, Henry Williamson
Unpublished ‘Introduction’ to The Star-born, Henry Williamson
Some Instances of Symbolism in The Star-born, Tony Evans and Anne Williamson
The Learned Pig, Anne Williamson
From a Wartime Norfolk Journal: Easter 1944, Henry Williamson
A Portrait of Richard Maddison, Parts 3, 4, and 5, Peter Lewis
Holiday postcards from William Leopold Williamson
The Stark Truth of War, Fred Shepherd
Two Dedicated Otter Men, John Irving
Henry: One of the Faces at the Window, Maurice Wiggin
Obituary: Father Brocard Sewell
Review

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ISSUE No. 35, September 1999

Editorial

Mad Willie and Me, Sue Cumming
A Portrait of Richard Maddison, Peter Lewis
Gaffer (from Take It to Bed), D.B. Wyndham Lewis
Good Husbandry, Philip Conford
Suspicions at Stiffkey, Fred Shepherd
Devon Diapason, Dr Lionel Dakers, CBE
Millennium Revelations (John Middleton Murry), Anne Williamson
Middleton Murry on Henry Williamson, Fr Brocard Sewell
Withypool: June, 1940, Henry Williamson
Thoughts on Field Marshall [sic] Haig, Henry Williamson
The Haggards of Ditchingham House, Cmdr Mark Cheyne
The Phasian Bird, Richard Williamson
A Selection of Reviews of The Phasian Bird

Letters

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ISSUE No. 34, September 1998
‘Reality in War Literature’

Reality in War Literature

Editorial

Reality in War Literature, Henry Williamson
A small selection of ‘Notes’ re 1914 and 1915, Henry Williamson
Extracts from Letters found on Germans during the Somme Battle
The Orders for the attack on the Hindenburg Line May 1917
Food Shortage at Home 1917
Truthful Poem: An Unemployed Ex-Soldier
Honeymoon 1925: some postcards from the Battlefields
Chyebassa Reunion 1926
And This Was Ypres – 1927 Visit, Henry Williamson
I Believe in the Men Who Died, Henry Williamson
The Last 100 Days, Henry Williamson
Further Notes for the Chronicle, Henry Williamson
Love and the Loveless: Some Cover Sketches
Reflections on the Death of a Field Marshal, Henry Williamson
Some Thoughts on ‘Spectre’ West, Anne Williamson
‘A Group of Soldiers’, Anne Williamson
A Critical Approach to A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight, Part II, Dr J. Wheatley Blench
Reviews

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ISSUE No. 33, September 1997

Editorial

A Critical Approach to A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight, Part I, Dr J. Wheatley Blench
Artistic Connections, Fred Shepherd
Light on The Pathway, Tony Evans
Kippered at Ox’s Cross, Richard Williamson
Coincidences and Influences, Brian Wake
Helena Rolls’ Brooch, Anne Williamson
Reviews under Review 3: The Dream of Fair Women, Peter Robins
Further Review cuttings from HW’s Archive
Waveney Girvan – Founder of the West Country Writers’ Association, Victor Bonham-Carter
Concerning The West Country Magazine, George Porter
‘Editor’s Preface’ from The West Country Magazine, No. 1, Malcolm Elwin
The Powys Society, Paul Roberts
Tarka the Otter is 70 years old:
Otters in Winter, Henry Williamson
The Otter, Henry Williamson
The Gentleman’s River, Henry Williamson
The Vanishing Hedgerows: Reflections on a Musical Theme, Paul Lewis
Reviews

Letters

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ISSUE No. 32, September 1996

Salar the Salmon: An Appraisal, Dr J. Wheatley Blench
Brief Encounter, George Mackie and friends
The Lynton and Barnstaple Railway and its Founder, Peter Lewis
A Visit to the Royal Society of Literature, Fred Shepherd
Georgeham Memories, Arthur Brown
Timbo’s Dream, Henry Williamson
Biographical Matters, Anne Williamson
Lost Rivers of the Salmonidae, Barry Kitts
Richard Maddison’s Bicycle, Robert Tierney
To Henry – A Centenary Tribute, Beryl Fullagar
Reviews

Letters

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CENTENARY ISSUE

No. 31, September 1995

Portrait of Henry Williamson by Charles Tunnicliffe, RA
On Achieving Centenary, Richard Williamson, President of the HWS
Roots: An Examination of HW’s Family Tree, Anne Williamson
The Incalculable Hour, J. Quiddington-West
A Look at Henry Williamson’s Lewisham, Brian Fullagar
Scarecrow Cottage – four articles from 1921–22, Henry Williamson
‘Ham’ in the 1920s, Peter Lewis
Endpaper map from The Labouring Life, Henry Williamson
‘T’chackamma’ – a fragment of manuscript, Henry Williamson
The Dreamer of Devon, Herbert Faulkner West
‘Zoë’ – pages from the original publication, Henry Williamson
‘Introduction’ from A Bibliography, I. Waveney Girvan
The Ironic Mode: Aldington and Williamson, John Onions
Henry Williamson, Edward Seago
Portrait of Henry Williamson by Edward Seago
Peace in War, a review, Henry Williamson
The Great Writers of Angling – ‘The Fishers of Men’, John Bailey
The Rural Tradition – ‘Henry Williamson’, Professor W.J. Keith
The Maddison and Turney Family Trees, Will Harris
Reviews

Notes on Contributors

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